The influence of Augusta Britt is now obvious in much of McCarthy’s work - Jim Spellman In 1976 a 16-year-old girl had a chance encounter with a 42-year-old novelist by a motel swimming pool in ...

Great American novelist Cormac McCarthy was defensively private and didn't share much about the inspiration behind his books — or about himself. However, the author, who died in 2023, apparently lived ...

The previously unknown "muse" of famed novelist Cormac McCarthy has revealed herself in a Vanity Fair profile, published Wednesday. Complete with excerpts from love letters and the first-hand ...

Revelations about a relationship between the author and a girl who was 16 when they met shocked readers, but not scholars of his work. Now there’s a debate about how much she influenced his writing.

Monthly magazine Vanity Fair is facing backlash for a recent article that some readers say romanticizes author Cormac McCarthy’s relationship with Augusta Britt. Augusta was a 16-year-old runaway when ...

Great American novelist Cormac McCarthy was defensively private and didn’t share much about the inspiration behind his books — or about himself. However, the author, who died in 2023, apparently lived ...